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Environmental Health
Implications of Global Climate Change. Watson, R., J.Patz, D.Gubler, E. Parson,
and H. Vincent. 2005. Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 7:834-843.
(Journal article)
If you are a big picture thinker, Watson’s article
provides a masterful summary of the connections of anthropogenic
activities to induced climate change, the likely health impacts of
changing climates, the current state of political response, and the
benefits of governmental policies aimed at lowering emissions. These
researchers also report on the direct health impacts of heat, rises in
sea level, and exacerbated air and water-borne harmful agents. They
comment on such things as worsening effects of air pollutants and
blood-sucking arthropods such as mosquitoes that may be significantly
impacted, redistributing diseases to some areas previously unaffected.
The article also summarizes economic projections based on failure to
respond to climate change and this is contrasted to proactive changes.
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